Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of flowing out.
- noun Something that flows out.
- noun The amount flowing out.
- intransitive verb To issue or stream out, in or as if in a flow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A flowing out or forth; efflux; issue.
- To flow out.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A flowing out; efflux.
- intransitive verb To flow out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process of
flowing out - verb intransitive To flow outward.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a natural flow of ground water
- noun the discharge of a fluid from some container
- noun the process of flowing out
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Examples
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And now we have some what we call outflow boundaries, some air that was thrown out of thunderstorms, pushed to the ground and then we made a big gust of wind.
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Then privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund.
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I think you misrepresent their statement when you quote them as saying privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund.
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I disagree with both of the comments - privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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* Thebest-case scenario: Containment chambers are put in place and they catch the outflow from the three ruptures that are currently pouring 200,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf every day.
Oil! « Gerry Canavan 2010
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Jeffrey A. Miron and Kevin M. Murphy write, privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund.
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Yet would my soul within outflow in foods of brine:
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Likewise, has it occurred to you that the aggregate outflow is almost certainly not known by any single person either?
The Memory Hole 2005
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The mass outflow is simply a 'safety valve' for the maintenance of the status quo.
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The mass outflow is simply a 'safety valve' for the maintenance of the status quo.
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